It should begin with friendship, I think. Suddenly I cannot look at him.
It should begin with friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for- loving the person because of all of those things...
I know that now.


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LISA BONET
When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.
LISA GUERRERO
I have nothing to offer you," he finally said in a guttural voice.
"Nothing."
Win's lips h...
LISA KLEYPAS
I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub ...
LISA KLEYPAS
No day would be complete without chocolate. My favorite: Vosges Creole bar - it's dark chocolate...
LISA EDELSTEIN
Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology no...
LISA MURKOWSKI
In our house, everybody is always dancing around and singing. We have a dance floor outside at our h...
LISA RINNA
When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, a...
LISA LOEB
If you're a disheveled, easily distracted person, it's always scary when someone asks what your plan...
LISA SMARTT
Words are like the delicate stitches in the dress you wear, holding the fabric of the garmet togethe...
LISA MANTCHEV
I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was for...
LISA RANDALL
Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.
LISA SCHROEDER
I think people were just seriously happy to find a funny woman who does comedy like a man. Because I...
LISA LAMPANELLI
What if you could meet your soul mate?" the ghost asked. "You 'd want to avoid that?"
"Hell, ye...
LISA KLEYPAS
When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begi...
LISA UNGER
An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Cr...
LISA RANDALL
I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I jus...
LISA O'HARE
I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow...
LISA KUDROW
There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically...
LISA UNGER
Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would g...
LISA SAMSON
The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because i...
LISA KRISTINE
I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.
LISA MCMANN
She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she c...
LISA ZARAN
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate ...
LISA BONET
People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously unders...
LISA RANDALL
I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna...
LISA BEDRICK
There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ...
LISA LOEB
My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being ov...
LISA TUTTLE
Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a write...
LISA LUTZ
I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of ...
LISA LOEB
Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspe...
LISA RANDALL
Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came fro...
LISA MURKOWSKI
I think it's fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to ...
LISA MURKOWSKI
The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so th...
LISA KLEYPAS
Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoo...
LISA KLEYPAS
Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention...
LISA LUTZ
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important. -Lisa Hoffman.
LISA HOFFMAN
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
LISA HOFFMAN
The Beslan Mothers are becoming more and more empowered with time passing, ... The meeting is a very...
LISA ARONSON
Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we ca...
LISA ARONSON
They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were h...
LISA ARONSON
Although they are at different skill levels, working with a traumatized and bereaved population was ...
LISA ARONSON
It was impressive seeing how this NGO operated, ... It really operates like an excellent family orga...
LISA ARONSON
When there is deliberate, intentional violence by man against man, very particular feelings are gene...
LISA ARONSON